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Name: ___________________________

Change a Positive Sentence to a Negative SentenceA positive sentence has no negative words. A negative sentence has a negative word or phrase. Common negative words and phrases include:

no, not, nobody, never, nothing, no one, nor, nowhere, none, cannot,isn’t, didn’t, won’t, wasn’t, and any other contraction with n’t.

You can turn a positive sentence into a negative sentence by adding a negative.

Example:

Positive sentence: The teacher likes to sing.

Negative sentence: The teacher doesn’t like to sing.

Change each the positive sentence below into a negative one.

1. The dog is in the backyard. __________________________________________________________

2. He was at the library on Friday. _______________________________________________________

3. She will dance in the play. ___________________________________________________________

4. The children were ready to go home. ___________________________________________________

5. Oliver walked to the corner. _________________________________________________________

6. I can read anything. ________________________________________________________________

7. The trees will fall over in a storm. _____________________________________________________

8. They always want to play games. ______________________________________________________

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Name: ___________________________

Change a Positive Sentence to a Negative SentenceA positive sentence has no negative words. A negative sentence has a negative word or phrase. Common negative words and phrases include:

no, not, nobody, never, nothing, no one, nor, nowhere, none, cannot,isn’t, didn’t, won’t, wasn’t, and any other contraction with n’t.

You can turn a positive sentence into a negative sentence by adding a negative.

Example:

Positive sentence: The teacher likes to sing.

Negative sentence: The teacher doesn’t like to sing.

Change each the positive sentence below into a negative one.

1. The dog is in the backyard. __________________________________________________________

2. He was at the library on Friday. _______________________________________________________

3. She will dance in the play. ___________________________________________________________

4. The children were ready to go home. ___________________________________________________

5. Oliver walked to the corner. _________________________________________________________

6. I can read anything. ________________________________________________________________

7. The trees will fall over in a storm. _____________________________________________________

8. They always want to play games. ______________________________________________________

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Key

Actual student answers will vary. Example of correct answers:

The dog isn’t in the backyard.

He wasn’t at the library on Friday.

She won’t dance in the play.

The children weren’t ready to go home.

Oliver didn’t walk to the corner.

I can read nothing.

The trees won’t fall over in a storm.

They never want to play games.